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George Shultz: The Friendly Face of American Interventionism

2021-02-21T19:43:16.030Z


Shultz represented the pragmatic wing within the Reagan administration, but supported some of the more interventionist policies of the Republican presidency in Central America.


George Shultz, center, with US President Ronald Reagan, in a 1985 photograph.Barry Thumma / AP

We live in extraordinary times, we know it.

So extraordinary that during the four years of Donald Trump's presidency we have witnessed the reevaluation of a political figure such as that of former President George W. Bush, during whose term the disastrous US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were brewed, the extrajudicial imprisonment at the Guantánamo military base and torture became a legitimate means of obtaining information.

Not only did these decisions have a deeply questionable ethical side, but they also destabilized ...

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